11 November (Part 2) - Odours. Bad. Exceptionally so
If the News Shopper’s
letters editor is content to see eight consecutive issues in which Bexley’s
council‘s brown bin fiasco is the dominant subject matter, it may not be too
excessive for BiB to follow in his footsteps not much more than 24 hours after
it last did so.
Now
that the backlog of undelivered bins has been much diminished the focus has
shifted to the plastic detritus that Bexley council has fly tipped right across
the borough. If anyone else had done it cabinet member Peter Craske would be
having them in court, but he is loathe to charge himself with the same crime.
Maybe someone else should but last time that happened Bexley police had to set
up a special
meeting with the CPS to “resolve his situation”.
Bexley council calls the abandoned bins ‘orphans’, which is probably a good name
considering its past record of neglecting real orphans, or Children in
Care as OFSTED called them in its damning report.
One of the two letters about the orphaned bins reminds News Shopper readers that the
old bins were supposed to have been collected in September and concludes that
the council leader should be deprived of her OBE given the extent of her failure.
The second correspondent referred to a bin in
Bexley Lane
which has been stinking outside the writer’s house for the past nine weeks, however Ms. Houghton’s
problem is not unique. It took me all of five minutes to take a short
walk armed with a camera to find a similar one. In fact I found two.
Ironically, at the very moment I had packed the camera back into its case an
open truck went by with around a dozen old bins on board. I thought it might
turn into my own road where seven orphans litter the footpath, but it carried
straight on, presumably on some aimless meandering diesel wasting mission.